Improvement in can-openers



UNITED STATES PATENT (DEFICE- f IMPROVEMENT 1N cAN-oPENERs.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 146,355, dated January13, 1974; applicationled August 16, 1873.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, EDME ACHILLE PATL- LARD and ZACHARIE GOUELAN, ofParis, France, have invented an Apparatus for Opening Preserved Meat andFish Tins, of which the following is a specication:

The object of our invention is to facilitate opening preserved-meat andother tins expeditiously and Without danger.

The apparatus consists of a vertical slotted frame, A, fixed to a bottomplate, P. Onthis frame slides a movable carriage, H, bearing thecutting-blade f. This carriage is adjustable at the desired height, inaccordance with that of the tin to be operated on, and is xed by anadjusting-screw, D. The blade slides with the carriage up and down theslot or vertical aperture M in the frame A, and is actuated by a movablelever, E, which is attached by apin, k, to the blade f. One end of thislever is articulated at o to the carriage H, and the other endterminates in a handle, F.

Fig. lis a front view of the saine... Instead of the lever acting by adownward pressure,

it may be arranged to act by an upward n1`o-` tion. Fig. 3 is a sideview, and Fig. 4 a plan, Y

of this arrangement.

We claim as our invention- The combination, with a vertical slottedframe, A, of a vertically-adjustable carriage,

H, in combination with a cutting-blade, f, and

lever E, as and for the purposes substantially as described.

E. A. PAILLARD.

Z. GOURLAN.

Witnesses:

R. HEBRE,- T. RAYMOND.

